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He, who had pictured to himself a calm and delightful solitude, wherein he could give himself up entirely to his studious and contemplative tastes. What a contrast to the reality! Rousing himself at last, he proceeded mechanically to arrange his belongings in the room, formerly inhabited by his cousin de Buxieres.
Each man seemed stunned deeply contemplative, as it were, and, not quite sure, trying to realize just what had taken place. Wolf Larsen gave them little time for thought. He at once put the Ghost upon her course a course which meant the seal herd and not Yokohama harbour.
Before eight o'clock I must be on the train." "When will you be back?" she whispered. "How can I tell? When I go, my wife shall wait there at Elmhurst, instead of my sweetheart." She turned away from me, contemplative. She, too, was young. Ardor appealed to her. Life stood before her, beckoning, as to me. What could the girl do or say? I placed her hand on my arm.
Plato perceived that the contemplative maiden was busy with memories of the past. In a tone of gentle reverence, he added, "What I have told you proves that your souls were one, before it wandered from the divine home; and it gives hope that they will be re-united, when they return thither after their weary exile in the world of shadows."
Mary remembered the well-bred insolence of Lady Caroom's stare, the contemplative incredulity which found militant expression in her beautiful eyes and shapely curving lips, and for a moment half closed her eyes. "Ah, well," she said, "that afternoon was rather a terrible one to me. Let us talk of something else." He was profuse at once in apologies for his own thoughtlessness.
I must tell you that she played splendidly, and, in my opinion, had one of the most glorious contralto voices that I ever heard." "She seems to have been a very attractive young woman," said Mary, in the same quiet, contemplative voice. "I think," went on the Colonel, "take her all in all, she was about the most attractive young woman that ever I saw, poor thing.
He rose unsteadily to his feet and regarded the steep declivities which formed the sides of the gully with a contemplative eye. He decided that they were climbable, but that he must wait awhile before he made the attempt. He was weak yet; one does not recover instantaneously from a crack on the head.
Yet the blood was hot and the nerves were highly strung, and life seemed capable of great things in this moody, contemplative morning.
We can see in him the two natures of his father and his mother the commingling of the powerful, practical, sagacious politician and man of affairs, with the studious, contemplative, imaginative, affectionate, religious enthusiast.
There is, however, much comedy that is obviously unsympathetic, even hostile. There is satire, which condemns, as well as humor which pardons. The one blames the unexpected and unconventional, the other sympathizes with it. Comedy is either biting or kindly. The one is moralistic and reformatory in its aim, the other is aesthetic and contemplative.
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